OPERATE - Ongoing Support

Going live is the beginning, not the end.

Without operational support after delivery, systems degrade and teams revert to manual workarounds. This offering keeps what was built performing - with clear processes, defined accountability, and a path to full operational independence.

Who this is for

Teams with live applications who need reliable operations without building an internal ops team.

Outcomes

  • Application availability maintained to defined SLAs without internal ops overhead
  • Incidents caught and resolved before they affect users
  • Technical debt and operational risk reduced over time

Available services

Choose a service to start your quote. You can mix and match later.

Essential

Application Monitoring

Your application stays healthy during business hours without dedicated ops staff. We watch it, patch it, and respond when something goes wrong.

From CHF 4’000 /month

2 days/month

Audience: Teams with a live application and infrastructure management in place but no dedicated capacity to monitor and respond to application-level issues.

Outcome: Monitors your application, applies security patches, and responds to incidents during business hours. Suited to teams that have infrastructure management in place but no dedicated application operations capacity. You keep control of the infrastructure - we keep the application healthy.

Delivers

  • Application monitoring and alerting
  • Application-level security patching
  • Incident response and triage
  • Monthly operational status report

Maintenance Retainer

Your live application stays current and healthy without consuming internal engineering time. Bugs fixed, dependencies updated, minor issues resolved.

From CHF 4’000 /month

2 days/month

Audience: Teams with a live application in production that needs regular maintenance but no active feature development.

Outcome: Provides ongoing maintenance for a live application on a fixed monthly retainer. Covers bug fixes, security patches, dependency updates, and minor improvements. Suited to applications in production that do not require active feature development but need regular upkeep to stay secure and functional.

Delivers

  • Bug fixes
  • Security patches
  • Dependency updates
  • Minor improvements

Full Operations

Application & Platform Operations

Someone owns the operational layer so your team can focus on building. Application and platform managed, monitored, and kept running.

From CHF 8’000 /month

4 days/month

Audience: Scale-ups and mid-market companies running on cloud platforms whose engineering team should not be spending time on operational maintenance.

Outcome: Manages both the application and the platform it runs on - PaaS, IaaS, or both. Covers monitoring, patching, incident response, and infrastructure upkeep. Suited to scale-ups and mid-market companies running on cloud platforms who need someone to own the operational layer so the engineering team can focus on product work.

Delivers

  • Application and platform monitoring
  • Application and platform security patching
  • Infrastructure health management
  • Incident response and root cause analysis
  • Bi-weekly operational status report

Development

Development Retainer

Continuous product improvement without a full-time hire. New features and technical improvements delivered every month on a predictable cadence.

From CHF 8’000 /month

4 days/month

Audience: Product owners with a live product that needs ongoing feature development and improvement without a full-time engineering team.

Outcome: Provides continuous development capacity on a fixed monthly retainer. Covers new feature development, technical enhancements, and maintenance alongside active product improvement. Suited to products that are live and need to keep evolving but do not justify a full-time engineering hire.

Delivers

  • New feature development
  • Technical enhancements
  • Maintenance coverage
  • Monthly progress report

Enterprise

Full-Stack Operations

Full operational ownership of your technology stack - application, platform, and infrastructure - so nothing falls through the gaps.

From CHF 16’000 /month

8 days/month

Audience: Organisations with business-critical systems that require dedicated, full-stack operational ownership across application, platform, and infrastructure.

Outcome: Takes complete operational ownership of your technology stack across application, platform, and infrastructure layers. Covers monitoring, security patching and hardening, incident response with defined escalation protocols, capacity planning, and continuous improvement recommendations. Suited to organisations with business-critical systems that cannot afford gaps in operational coverage.

Delivers

  • Full-stack monitoring and alerting
  • Security patching and hardening across all layers
  • Incident response with escalation protocol
  • Root cause analysis and preventive action
  • Capacity planning recommendations

Full Operations Retainer

A complete engineering and operations partner. Maintenance, features, infrastructure, and strategic technical initiatives - all handled on one retainer.

From CHF 16’000 /month

8 days/month

Audience: Organisations that need a complete engineering and operations partner for a live product without the overhead of building an internal team.

Outcome: Provides full engineering and operations coverage on a fixed monthly retainer. Covers maintenance, feature development, infrastructure management, and strategic technical initiatives. The closest equivalent to an embedded engineering and operations team without the overhead of full-time employment.

Delivers

  • Full maintenance coverage
  • Feature development
  • Infrastructure management
  • Strategic technical initiatives
  • Monthly progress report

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